First Hollywood (or at least made in USA) movie where Russian dialog was spoken by Russian speaking actor?

I was wondering what the first movie (made in USA) was where a character speaking Russian was played by an actor for whom Russian was a fluent (though not necessarily first) language, spoken with no noticeable accent?

Please note that this question explicitly excludes cases where the character was an non-Russian speaker who could speak Russian (such as Jack Ryan from "Hunt for Red October").

(the impetus for this was the wonderful Scottish-accented Connery's Captain Ramius and remembering my WTF upon hearing the accent).

Best Answer

This is a hard (if not impossible question to answer, seeing that many early films have been lost in fires etc.) but I will try point you in the right direction. Seeing as dialog is a factor in your question the film must have been made after 1927, when the jazz singer was announced as the first "talkie".

Then we have a span of 11 years where the movie you are looking for could have been made until 1938 when HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) released a report on communist activities in Hollywood and started the HUAC-hearings. We can not be sure, but there was propably no features during this period with russian (or russian speaking) actors. After that period I know of a movie made in 1966 whit a serbian actor speaking russian, Milos Milos in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming directed by Norman Jewison, but I have a hard time thinking this would be the fist one.

Also, it is likley that if such a movie was made during the HUAC-hearings it might have been an independent production and hard to track.

I hope this information will be of help.

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